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Name: BRANDSMA, Gorgonius (Bishop)
Birth Date: 22.6.1874 Sneek, Holland
Death Date: 19.6.1935 Nairobi, stroke
Nationality: Dutch
First Date: 1899
Last Date: 1935
Profession: Mill Hill missionary. Went to Uganda in 1899 and served his church for 36 years in Africa, mostly at Kisumu, in Uganda and in the Belgian Congo
Area: Kisumu, Uganda and Belgian Congo, 1908 Mumias
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Tignor, Red 31, Hut, North, Drumkey, Gazette, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Baur, Red Book 1912
General Information:
North - 3rd MHF caravan to Uganda; arr. Mumia's 20-1-1900, arr. Nsambya Kampala 11-2-1900
Gazette - 4/3/14 - Rev. Fr. Wall appointed Visiting Justice Kisumu prison vice Rev. Fr. Brandsma
EAHB 1907 - Mumias
Red Book 1912 - Revd. G. Brandsma - Kismayu
HBEA shows Rev. G. Brandsma at Mill Hill Mission, Kisumu
Tignor - Member of Labour Commission in 1911 [Father Brandsma]
Dictionary of African Christisn Biography Bishop Gorgonius Bransmas was of the Mill Hill Mission. He studied at Megen and Rosendaal in Holland and Mill Hill, London. He was ordained priest in 1899 and arrived in Uganda the same year. In 1904 he was appointed superior of the mission at Kamuli in Busoga, and in 1906 he opened work at Kakamega. In 1910 he visited Kisii country to examine the prospects for mission work, and in December 1911 opened the mission at Nyabururu, Kisii. In 1914 he was appointed superior of the Mill Hill Mission in the Belgian Congo. In 1925 he was made Prefect Apostolic of Kavirondo, Kenya, and in 1933 Vicar Apostolic of Kisumu, and was consecrated Bishop.